Economic optimization of non-sharp separation sequences by means of evolutionary algorithms

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1411-1432

  Henrich, Frank ^a   Bouvy, Claude ^a   Kausch, Christoph ^a   Lucas, Klaus ^a   Preuß, Mike ^b   Rudolph, Günter ^b   Roosen, Peter ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c goe   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distillation sequence; Evolutionary algorithms; Non sharp distillation; Optimization; Process synthesis; Profit oriented; Rigorous modeling

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MIXING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DISTILLATION SEQUENCE; NON-SHARP DISTILLATION; PROCESS SYNTHESIS; PROFIT ORIENTED; RIGOROUS MODELING;

DISTILLATION;

DISTILLATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MIXING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 42949090753     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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